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Self-confidence
is the key to success, so the adage goes. But what happens when it would become
too much?
In
our scrutinizing eyes, we see opinions posted on social media sites intended to
create “noise” even if these are ungrounded. There are those who post offensive
words to become famous.
The
present media landscape is increasingly saturated with the need for fame and
celebrity status. We are living in a cultural moment in which ostensibly anyone
can achieve sudden fame via [Tiktok and Facebook] (Greenwood, 2022).
While
the allure of fame is certainly not a new phenomenon, the ubiquity and
perceived accessibility of fame seems to give a false sense of self-confidence.
Then,
with the number of “likes” and followers, one can then feign the feeling of
being famous.
This
is when the person must be careful on treading the fame ground. Mclennan (2022)
wrote: Humans are all too tempted to believe their own hype or the hype created
around them, and when they cannot live up to it, the mental ill health seeds
that they have previously sown, sprout as poisoned ivy.
If
unguarded and unprocessed by the self, the need to be famous by posting
ungrounded opinions can possibly lead to a psychological case.
One
of the most elaborate recent investigations of fame interest was undertaken by
Maltby (2010), who found that narcissism was positively correlated with
Intensity (e.g., “Very little matters to me apart from being famous”) Celebrity
Lifestyle (e.g., “I want to be rich”), Drive (e.g., “I work hard every day to
be famous”), and Perceived Suitability (e.g., “I’ve got what it takes to be
famous”).
Narcissism
was associated with increased appeal of Visibility and Status, more time spent
engaged in fame fantasy, and greater perceived realism of future fame. This is
from the study titled “Fame and the Social Self: The need to belong,
narcissism, and relatedness predict the appeal of fame” by Greenwood, Long and
Dal Cin (2013).
There
are things that we need to understand like our motivations of fame and power.
We also have the capacity to reroute our movements since we control our own
sails. If not, we might be part of the statistical data on the verge of
insanity.
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